The problem highlighted by this next ACEing Academia tip is an incredibly common way researchers tend to write which, in turn, has a tendency to make the reader grumpy because the sentence can go on and on so the reader is unsure how it began and what the main point

This is not a trick question: how many ideas should be in each paragraph of an academic document? The answer: just one idea per paragraph please. This pulls together ACEing Academia 3 and 7: you need to avoid unstructured paragraphs AND creating a wall of text. However, the reason that

This next common error is so prevalent in academic writing that I want to mention it in the very first sentence: avoid creating a wall of text. What is a wall of text you ask? This is when an author just keeps adding to a paragraph and, as a reader,

This probably seems obvious, but I feel the need to state it anyway: structure is a vital part of any writing you do. The entire document should have a structure that allows the reader to follow along from the introduction to the conclusion, with each section building on the one